Jonas Björkman

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Jonas Björkman

Country	Sweden
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Date of birth	23 March 1972
Place of birth	Vaxjo, Sweden
Height	6'0in (182 cm)
Weight	183 lbs (83 kg)
Turned Pro	1991
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$12,622,364
Singles
Career record:	381 - 318
Career titles:	6
Highest ranking:	4 (November 3, 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1998, '02)
French Open	4th Round (1996)
Wimbledon	SF (2006)
U.S. Open	SF (1997)
Doubles
Career record:	614 - 257
Career titles:	49
Highest ranking:	1 (9 July 2001)
Infobox last updated on: July 3, 2006.

Jonas Lars Björkman (born March 23, 1972, Växjö, Sweden) is a Swedish professional male tennis player and former World No. 4 in singles and World No. 1 in doubles.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Titles (55) 3.1 Singles(6), Doubles (49) 3.2 Singles finalist (5) 4 Grand Slam Doubles 4.1 Titles (9) 4.2 Finals (2) 5 External links

[edit] Biography

The son of tennis coach and mailman Lars Björkman, Jonas began playing tennis at the age of six. At 18, he won the Swedish Junior Championship and was among the top 5 junior Swede players. He married Petra on December 2, 2000 in Stockholm and has a son, Max (born January 15, 2003). He plays righthanded and has a particularly good record against lefthanded players. He claims it's because his father plays lefthanded.

[edit] Career

He turned professional in 1991. In 1993, he won three Challenger singles titles. In 1994, he won seven titles in doubles including the 1994 ATP Tour World Championships in Jakarta. In 1995, he reached his first career ATP singles final in Hong Kong. In 1997, he became the 9th ever Swedish tennis player to finish in ATP top 10 at no. 4. He advanced to his first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open, losing to Greg Rusedski. At the 1998 Australian Open, he won his first career doubles Grand Slam title. 2000 saw him finishing in the singles top 50 for the fifth time in seven years.

In his career, he has won six singles titles and 49 titles in doubles, including eight Grand Slam titles.

In the 2006 Wimbledon, he unexpectedly made it into the singles semi-finals at the age of 34, making him the oldest player to get there since Jimmy Connors in 1987. He had only made it into the singles quarter-finals once in 2003. He was unseeded, but defeated 14th-seeded Radek Stepanek in a match which included saving a match point. He had previously ousted his doubles partner Max Mirnyi and another Swede, Thomas Johansson, to make the quarter-finals. In the semi-final he found World No. 1 and defending champion Roger Federer too good and was overpowered in straight sets, 6-2, 6-0, 6-2. When John McEnroe announced his official return to the ATP Pro Tour in 2006 he teamed up with Björkman to win the doubles title at the SAP Open in San Jose.

[edit] Titles (55)

[edit] Singles(6), Doubles (49)

• 1994
  • [Doubles : 7] - Antwerp, Bastad, Doubles Championship, London / Queen's Club, Schenectady, Rotterdam, Jakarta

• 1995
  • [Doubles : 3] - Bastad, Toulouse, Ostrava

• 1996
  • [Doubles : 2] - Antwerp, New Delhi

• 1997
  • [Singles : 3] - Auckland, Indianapolis, Stockholm
  • [Doubles : 1] - Atlanta

• 1998
  • [Singles : 1] - Nottingham
  • [Doubles : 2] - Australian Open, Indian Wells

• 1999
  • [Doubles : 5] - Cincinnati, Stuttgart Indoor, Australian Open, Halle, Montreal / Toronto

• 2000
  • [Doubles : 1] - Moscow

• 2001
  • [Doubles : 4] - Rotterdam, Australian Open, Hamburg TMS, Monte Carlo AMS

• 2002
  • [Singles : 1] - Nottingham
  • [Doubles : 4] - Auckland, Bastad, Monte Carlo AMS, Wimbledon

• 2003
  • [Doubles : 4] - Halle, Stockholm, US Open, Wimbledon

• 2004
  • [Doubles : 4] - Bastad, Paris AMS, Sydney, Wimbledon

• 2005
  • [Singles : 1] - Ho Chi Minh City
  • [Doubles : 5] - Bastad, Cincinnati AMS, Hamburg AMS, Miami AMS, Roland Garros

• 2006
  • [Doubles : 7] - Doha, San Jose, Miami AMS, Monte Carlo AMS, Roland Garros, Bastad, Cincinnati AMS

[edit] Singles finalist (5)

• 1995
  • Hong Kong
• 1997
  • Coral Springs, Paris Indoor
• 2003
  • Marseille
• 2006
  • Nottingham

[edit] Grand Slam Doubles

[edit] Titles (9)

• 1998 Australian Open (w/Jacco Eltingh)
• 1999 Australian Open (w/Patrick Rafter)
• 2001 Australian Open (w/Todd Woodbridge)
• 2002 Wimbledon (w/Todd Woodbridge)
• 2003 Wimbledon (w/Todd Woodbridge)
• 2003 US Open (w/Todd Woodbridge)
• 2004 Wimbledon (w/Todd Woodbridge)
• 2005 French Open (w/Max Mirnyi)
• 2006 French Open (w/Max Mirnyi)

[edit] Finals (2)

• 1994 French Open
• 1997 US Open

[edit] External links

• Profile on ATPtennis.com